More than 1,000 people attended the 8th Annual Cooper’s Glen Music Festival January 22-23. See Gallery or GLAMA Newsletter
 
By most accounts, the event was a big success thanks to continued support from our donors, a wonderful staff of volunteers and hundreds of new and retuning attendees.  The success is attributed to near-perfect weather conditions for a Michigan January, a wide diversity of acoustic music acts and the desire to spend a winter weekend inside with fellow music lovers.
 
Both days featured several great performances and lots of informal jamming among musicians.  Friday evening acts included local folk trio Carmea, the Red Sea Pedestrians, Lansing’s Honest D and the Steel Reserve, Celtic group Millish and well-known California duo Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum.  Saturday included local and regional acts Highway 94, the Hoot Owls, The Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, the Williams Family and Schlitz Creek.  Also in the Saturday lineup were old-time musicians the New Bad Habits, blues musicians Madcat, Kane, and Maxwell Street,  folk singer/musician/songwriter Joel Mabus and Rodney Dillard.  Rodney’s brother, Doug, had been expected to join Rodney in Kalamazoo, but did not make it due to travel problems.

Long-time GLAMA member and volunteer Bob Morgan (Pictured on the right) was the lucky winner of a beautiful hand-made acoustic guitar donated to the festival raffle by luthier Bryan Galloup (left in photo).  It was the second straight year that Galloup provided a guitar in support of the festival.  A member of the Great Lakes Luthier’s Guild, Galloup and ten other luthiers set up displays to demonstrate both finished guitars and some “under construction.”